[Starfighter!]

The Museum at Speyer has several Starfighters, I'm  sure thats where I first heard the German joke 'How do you get your own Starfighter?'  to which to punchline was 'buy a plot of land and wait for one to crash on it' (it may be lost in either the translation or my telling! )

 

If you were painting inn the German livery, the view from above might have been useful - but just look at all those tanks hanging underneath!

 

The skeletal one has a couple of close ups - Lockhead had the advantage of being able to write their assembly instructions on the plane - in this case how to bolt the wings on!

 

Jon 

[LSWR corridor third - assembly of body]

7 hours ago, brossard said:

 

BTW, using CA to attach fiddly details is not a crime in my book.

 

 

After the soldering has finished I absolutely agree.

 

9 hours ago, Barry Ten said:

 

I presumed that's why Tim said he'd do it outside!

 

I've inadvertently heated up cyano once or twice and err... (checks pulse) I'm still here! Probably not a good thing to do too many times though.

 

Tim didn't actually say that until after my post, and I had the impression he is a relatively novice etched brass builder, so I thought the evolved fumes ought to be mentioned .

 

So have I, but I think there is a difference between accidentally doing it, and it being part of the plan! 

 

Jon

[LSWR corridor third - assembly of body]

3 hours ago, Tim Dubya said:

You're right about the glue.  I've resurrected the first side and cyano'd in the drop lights and taped them up for soldering tomorrow (or not).

 

 

 

 

Cyano and solder - that's a VERY bad idea, the fumes evolved are not exactly good for you!

 

Jon

[A Very Large Build - HMCS Snowberry Part.1]

Gaarrrggghh, HMCS Bluebell took up dry dock all over my workbench much of last year - I bought a slightly started original Matchbox kit from the Bluebell railway swapmeet for the princely sum of £15, it had lost the stand, and had the portholes glued in (badly) and the four quarters of the hull glued together.

 

I bashed out the portholes and eventually replaced them with laser cut acrylic

Filled the bottom of the hull with resin then de-keeled the hull - its not often you go at a plastic kit with a surform!

Deck mostly de-planked, and plate scribed

all the ventilators were thinned at the exposed edges

the funnel had a plasticard wrap with the correct rivets

all the handrails were whitemetal and thread

gun emplacements had anti-slip flooring ribs.

the nameboards were laser cut Mahogany veneer.

the whaler boats all gained inner hull framing

By the time I'd finished it had cost me £100 in parts, and I had no space at all - I had to sell it in the end because it took too much space - alas I seem to have not taken 'finished' photos 

 

[bl 9.2 mk10 railway artillery]

What is the origin of that kit?

 

Jon

[Asw black adders]

Nice!

 

I did a resin body shell that is occasionally available after a resin casting demo http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/81789-poa-blackadder-scrap-wagons/

 

Jon

[Problems of all sorts!]

Or drop a small ball bearing into each 'shell' void before you put the resin in the mould and it ought to remain at the bottom and encapsulated?

 

Jon

[PWA vans.]

You should probably paint the ends brown, and if you can, remove the 'Procor' lettering as none carried this.

 

Jon

[ARC Hanson JHA Part 4: Revised 3D Model]

Great work - I like your method for getting the wheels in.

 

I wonder if the contact area where the bogie is pivoted, might be a bit small? You could find the wagons on top will tend to wobble with such a small area?

 

Jon

[ARC/Hanson JHA Part 1: LTF-25 Bogies]

looking forward to seeing the test print results

 

J

[Network Rail MENTOR coach - Part 1]

Looking good!

[Troublesome Bogies]

What wheelbase is required? I got so fed up of the bogies for the Cambrian Sealion, that I did my own etch, but that's for the cast type, not platebacks.

Jon